I joined a friend last night to go attend the Trafalgar Night dinner of the British Officers' Club of New England, a small social club that roosts inside the really neat "Union Club" right near the State House in Boston.

A measure of the friendly nature of the club and the maturity of the US/UK relationship was that the dinner speaker for the evening was to be Cdr. Bullard, CO of the USS Constitution.

Before dinner got started, we got involved in a conversation with Cdr Bullard (whom we knew casually from our involvement with the USS Constitution Museum). But this was the most extensive conversation I'd had a chance to have with him, and I explained my interest in naval history and how I started by modeling and then simulating fire control systems.

Cdr. Bullard stopped me and said, "I found this website that you really have to go see -- have you ever heard of The Dreadnought Project?" I kid you not!

He had mostly seen the ship plans and the photo albums. he was impressed by the German Torpedo Halbflotille and how they maneuvered so dangerously close together.